I’m not certain, but it seems to me there is a dearth of summer camps and similar activities for youth in New Orleans as the…
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I’m not certain, but it seems to me there is a dearth of summer camps and similar activities for youth in New Orleans as the…
I arrived at work yesterday morning to discover a sign on the front door of our office suite: Happy Administrative Assistants Day! The sign had…
A couple weeks ago I mentioned that we had interviewed a candidate who could be my new boss, and I alluded to the fact that…
Looking back at the last seven days or so, there’s a lot of stuff I haven’t written about. On the political front, there was controversy…
Donna comes and cleans my office every day. Her son was killed last Mardi Gras. We talk about Manny frequently. She’s strong, but the pain…
I was just talking to a lady who works a janitorial detail here at the University. Her son, Jermaine Wise, was murdered last Mardi Gras…
I just learned that tomorrow will be my co-worker Althea’s last day here at the University. Althea has been with the University for many years.…
I recently learned that the library here at the University has a stockpile of a few hundred educational filmstrips from the 50s and 60s. They’re…
How would you like to boss me around? If you think you’ve got what it takes, you can apply for the job. (I just discovered…
Both elevators are out of commission for the last few days, so I’ve been using the emergency stairwell to get to and from my office…
I just got my copy of Katrina-ku: Storm Poems, a compilation of haiku poetry about you-know-what, to which I contributed a little technical assistance. It’s…
Imagine walking into a party full of people you’ve never met, but whom you know more or less intimately because they’ve been pouring their hearts…
Sometime in the wee hours of yesterday morning my rox.com e-mail account started to choke. I’ve had the same e-mail address for ten years so…
After years of confusion, the HR department has finally changed my official job title from Multimedia Specialist to Multimedia Artist.
I’m not the praying type, but all the same I thought I’d pass on this prayer, written by Sr. Loretta McCarthy, SBS. Spirit of the…
Check out this presentation on the rebuilding of Xavier University (PDF, about three and half MB). Astonishing pictures of the flooded campus.
I just saw something I’ve never seen in my seven years here at the University: students throwing a football around in the quad. It did…
As it develops, not only am I on the search committee to find my new boss — I’m the damn chair.
The University where I work is finally getting some financial aid — not from the United States, but from Qatar. I’m certainly glad for the…
On my first day of work here at the University, almost seven years ago, I asked my boss what time he wanted me in the…